due to unavoidable scheduling conflict, my daughter has to fly in by herself for the orientation. she’s a big girl now so i’m sure she could take care of herself but…i’m in dilemma with all the luggage/stuff since there’s limitation with how much one could bring on to the flight.
i was hoping we could leave some of the bigger stuff (blankets, etc.) at the dorm (unit 1) when we visit end of this month but Berkeley said they can’t take any due to liability reasons. anyone has any bright idea how to go on about this ??
if worse comes to worse, we could rent a storage near school but…i don’t want to add pressure to my girl having to worry about navigating her way to (& back) the storage amidst all the confusion of starting a new life in a new city.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you are staying at a hotel, you can probably leave stuff at the hotel and pick it up later. Not sure how long a hotel would tolerate this but this is possible.
A better thing to do would be to use Public Storage. I know they used to have the 1st month free promotion, let me check and see if they still have this going on.
I just checked, Public Storage does have their $1 for the first month specials going on. There’s a couple of places in Berkeley and Emeryville. Not all that close to the campus but within a 10-15 minute drive. I’ve taken advantage of these specials a lot for storing stuff for very short term (21-28 days) and it will come out to around $20-30, so a good deal.
Can she fly Southwest? 2 bags checked free. Can you ship some things to her? Use Amazon Prime with 2 day delivery for some new items. As a student, she gets 6 months of Prime free. If she is coming home for Thanksgiving, can she pick up some stuff then?
She could order bedding through Bed, Bath, and Beyond ahead of time, then take Lyft to the store to pick it up (lots of students get their bedding this way, she’d just need to use a ride sharing service to pick it up, which is super easy).
thank you guys so much for the help…extra thanks to Professor P. for his kind/generous private message !
i guess easiest thing to do is simply mail it BUT…we can’t even do that until she gets her room no. which is only when she gets there. i’ll have to double check but they said nothing can’t be sent/kept until the room no. is assigned.
storage might be an overkill since we’re only talking about bedding & little else…we’ll keep that as a last resort.
i wish we thought of Bed, Bath and Beyond earlier but unfortunately, she’s already picked out/bought the bedding with her mom last month so…
if worse comes to worse, she’ll just have to make do for few days without her regular bedding set.
thank you again !
My son is also flying in solo, with two free suitcases. He asked us NOT to accompany him. I am a bit laughing to myself, how he is going to handle the “fit into two suitcases” issue. But I know it is all not fatal. In the worse case he will have to do without a few items, and may be will learn some lessons about not shutting the parents out of the loop… My attitude, on that issue, is “take it easy.” After all, I barely have enough capacity to worry about academic issues and transferable units and such!